Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private C. J. Conaghan, 5th Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force, who died of disease on 2 January 1919
1914-15 Star (1116 Pte. C. J. Conaghan. 5 L.H.Rgt. A.I.F.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (1116 Pte. C. J. Conaghan 5 L.H.R. A.I.F.) very fine

Pair: Driver S. Sullivan, 5th Divisional Ammunition Column, Australian Imperial Force
British War and Victory Medals (1506 Dvr. S. Sullivan. 5. D.A.C. A.I.F.) good very fine

Victory Medal 1914-19 (3) (1521 Dvr. J. R. Carey. 9-L.H.R. A.I.F.; 512 Dvr. G. L. Furlong. 2 L.H.R. A.I.F.; 403 Pte. C. P. Wilson. 2 L.H.R. A.I.F.) generally very fine (7) £120-£160

Charles Joseph Conaghan was born in Donegal, Ireland, in 1880, and attested for the 5th Light Horse Regiment on 30 January 1915. Posted to Egypt, he was repeatedly sent to hospital at Moascar suffering from sickness and an abscess/septic sore wound. Transferred to work with the regimental canteens at Kantara in 1917, his Army Service Record notes that he suffered a fracture to the right thigh, likely accidental. He later died of pneumonia and influenza at Kantara on 2 January 1919, and is buried at the Kantara Military Cemetery.

John Reginald Carey, a farmer, was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, around 1896, and attested for the 9th Light Horse Regiment on 4 September 1915. Taken on strength at Heliopolis 28 December 1915, he was wounded in Palestine and taken to hospital on 19 April 1917; his Army Service Record notes a gunshot wound to the shoulder and transfer to a convalescent depot at Abbassia. Recorded as breaking out of barracks on 24 May 1917, he was later detached to the School of Instruction at El Arish (servant) and embarked at Port Said for England in February 1919.

George Lismore Furlong was born at Lismore, New South Wales, around 1892, and attested for ‘C’ Squadron of the 2nd Light Horse Regiment on 26 August 1914. He served at Gallipoli and ‘saw action at Quinn’s and Pope’s Post & Walker’s Ridge’ (the recipient’s Army Service Record, refers), and later fought in France from 24 June 1916.

Charles Peter Wilson was born in Queensland and enlisted in ‘B’ Squadron of the 2nd Light Horse Regiment on 24 August 1914. He landed at Gallipoli on 31 August 1915 and within two weeks was evacuated to Intarfa and Valetta Hospitals suffering from enteritis and influenza. Transferred to Etaples in November 1916 and Egypt a short while later, he returned home to Australia on 8 October 1918.

Sold with brass Australian Commonwealth Military Forces cap badges (2); Australia shoulder titles (2); Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League Australia badge; Imperial Service badge; and copied research.